Lifting Black-Owned Restaurants in St. Louis With a Website Launched by a St. Louis Activist
Chef Lawrence Andrew Reynolds has his own ideas about preparing food for his customers at Oasis Grill. “Seafood grits is one of my creations that contain shrimp, lobster and crab meat,” said Reynolds. He’s co-owner of Oasis Grill in Jennings, located in a predominantly black community. It’s one of many black-owned restaurants in the St. Louis area featured on For the Culture STL. It’s a website created by St. Louis activist Ohun Ashe. “I was heavily active in the Ferguson protests and the Jason Stockley protest,” Ashe explained. “Once those started dying down, I had this desire to uplift black-owned businesses.” She envisioned providing the St. Louis community with an online black business directory, launching ForTheCultureSTL.com.
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